The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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... better than its predecessor ; the author will expect it should be ten times more popular , and ' tis a hundred to ten that both are disappointed . Captain . This may justify a certain degree of rapidity in pub- lication , but not that ...
... better than its predecessor ; the author will expect it should be ten times more popular , and ' tis a hundred to ten that both are disappointed . Captain . This may justify a certain degree of rapidity in pub- lication , but not that ...
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... better of the two , Tunstall was much better ac- ferred nothing mean or discreditable . Some aberra- quainted with the principles on which it ought to be tions there were , which David Ramsay , his master , done ; and he sometimes ...
... better of the two , Tunstall was much better ac- ferred nothing mean or discreditable . Some aberra- quainted with the principles on which it ought to be tions there were , which David Ramsay , his master , done ; and he sometimes ...
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... better sport , " said the crabbed old watchmaker . " I am blithe , though , that its neither of the twa loons themselves . - What are ye bringing a corpse here for , ye fause villains ? " he added , addressing the two apprentices , who ...
... better sport , " said the crabbed old watchmaker . " I am blithe , though , that its neither of the twa loons themselves . - What are ye bringing a corpse here for , ye fause villains ? " he added , addressing the two apprentices , who ...
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... better aff than I am , though I were to bide as I am . " " I have seen his father with four gentlemen and ten lackeys at his heels , " said Master George , " rust- ling in their laces and velvets . Well , this is a change- ful world ...
... better aff than I am , though I were to bide as I am . " " I have seen his father with four gentlemen and ten lackeys at his heels , " said Master George , " rust- ling in their laces and velvets . Well , this is a change- ful world ...
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... better to - morrow , which perhaps might not have proved an appropriate , even if it had been a possible , mode of relief . On this occasion she denied stoutly that Richie had been absent altogether twenty hours ; and as for people ...
... better to - morrow , which perhaps might not have proved an appropriate , even if it had been a possible , mode of relief . On this occasion she denied stoutly that Richie had been absent altogether twenty hours ; and as for people ...
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